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    The surname Cotto

    A surname, carried by 6,506 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C300

    Cotto: #5,348 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cotto #5,348, 6,506 people Cotto: #5,348 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cotto #5,348, 6,506 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cotto is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,506 people named Cotto in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,456 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,268.

    #5,348
    rank among US surnames
    6,506
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.5%
    change since 2000 (was #6,013)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,339Bias6,51847,368
    #5,340Emanuel6,51747,375
    #5,342Howerton6,51647,383
    #5,343Delao6,51547,390
    #5,344Chaplin6,51347,405
    #5,345Grenier6,50947,434
    #5,347Hermosillo6,50847,441

    Who is named Cotto

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    89% of people named Cotto identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.1% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 89%
    • White (not Hispanic) 8.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cotto

    Cotto has the Soundex code C300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cotto?
    6,506 people in the United States had the surname Cotto in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,456 Americans. It ranked 5,348th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cotto?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Cotto identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.1% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cotto getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,268 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,506 in 2010, up 24%.